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Photographic portrait, 1857Josiah Johnson Hawes; public domain · Public domain

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist, poet and lecturer whose writing explores independent judgement, education, nature and the changing perspectives through which people understand their lives.

1803 AD – 1882 AD · 1,607 collected ↗